Thanks. It reminds me of a walk I once participated in, a City Planner's
walk for the Bronx Historical Society, along the original Croton Aqueduct,
NYC's first. A group would meet every Saturday and walk over a different
section of the original route, taking us through some interesting
neighborhoods, the Bronx Zoo, and backyards in Westchester County. In
Ossining, NY (site of an NY State Urban Cultural Park and prison museum, one
of 14) we actually entered a section of the aqueduct as part of an exhibit
and marveled at the history of gravity fed system that brought "the German
cockroach" to NYC, in the folk history of NYC. NYC had always struggled with
water, and reservoirs, one of the originals built by Aaron Burr, became the
Chase Manhattan Bank, now JPMorgan Chase. J.P. Morgan once had a summer
house along the Hudson River, just above an emergency intake, now known as
Dutchess County's Bowdoin Park.
Sewers, they must be hard to run without water!
George Myers
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